FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION CYPRIAN'S COLLECTED WORKS
THE FIRST GREAT LATIN WRITER OF CHRISTIANITY

CYPRIANUS, CAECILIUS. Divi Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis, et gloriosissimi Martyris Opera. Ad veritatem vetustissimorum exemplarium summa fide emendata, addito etiam quinto epistolarum libro, antea numquam edito. Alia eidem Cypriano adscripta. [...]. Romae, Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F, 1563. [Rome: Paolo Manuzio, 1563].

Folio, 18th century stiff vellum binding, pp. [28], 424, [52].
The work was devoted by Paolo Manuzio to the cardinal Borromeo. This sumptuous edition was edited by Latino Latini.

FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CYPRIAN, BISHOP OF CARTHAGE, THE FIRST GREAT LATIN WRITER OF CHRISTIANITY.

Some treatises and letters were never published before this edition, that can be partly considered an editio princeps.

TASCIUS CAECILIUS CYPRIANUS also know as Saint Cyprian (210-258 AC), African rhetorician converted to Christianism, was particularly committed in theological–pastoral controversies where, with chaste e impassioned tones, he showed his literary gift and his charisma; through his work, the necessity for the early Catholic Church to remain united under a safe guide is strongly stated and this realistic representation of Christianity became very popular during the Renaissance.

REFERENCES: Renouard, 188, 3: «Cette édition, dédiée par Paul Manuce au Cardinal Charles Borromée, est faite sur d’excellents manuscrits, et contient plusieurs lettres et traités de S. Cyprien, qui n’avoient pas encore été imprimés».

Usual traces of foxing, but a good copy.